2008 Diary

DATE WALK DISTANCE ASCENT TIME
Saturday, 26th December

Slipper Lowe car park, Roddlesworth Reservoirs, Earnsdale Reservoir, Sunnyhurst Wood, Jubilee Tower, Darwen Moor

8 mls 1,500 ft 4 hrs
Thursday, 25th December

Rivington, Pigeon Tower, Rivington Pike, Pike Cottage, The Castle

4.5 mls 770 ft 2.25 hrs
Sunday, 21st December

Scout Scar, Brigsteer, Underbarrow, Bell Hill, Cunswick Scar

10.4 mls 2, 250 feet 5.25 hrs
Wednesday, 17th December

Scorton, Nicky Nook, Fell End Farm, Moor Farm, Burns Farm, Slean End

7.7 mls 1,500 ft 4 hrs
Sunday, 14th December

Rivington Great House Barn, Rivington Pike, Pike Cottage, Two Lads, Winter Hill, Noon Hill, Lower Hempshaw's, Lead Mines Clough, Yarrow Reservoir, Rivington

10 mls 1,300 ft 4.5 hrs
Sunday, 7th December

Great Langdale, Side Pike, Lingmoor Fell, Elterwater

8.4 mls 2,500 ft 6 hrs
Sunday, 30th November

Easedale Road, Helm Crag, Gibson Knott, Calf Crag, Codale Head, High Raise, Tarn Crag, Easedale Road

10 mls 3,200 ft 7 hrs
Sunday, 23rd November

Bowderdale, Cautley Spout, Cautley Crag, Calders, The Calf, Hazelgill Knott, West Fell

12.8 mls 3,100 ft 6 hrs
Sunday, 16th November

Horton Bridge, Brackenbottom, Pen-y-Ghent, Plover Hill, Foxup Moor, Hull Pot

9.3 mls 2,000 ft 5 hrs
Wednesday, 12th November

Clapham, Clapdale, Trow Gill, Gaping gill, Little Ingleborough, Ingleborough, Simon Fell Breast, Sulber Gate, Long Scar, Encombe Bridge

12 mls 2,200 ft 6.75 hours
Sunday, 9th November

A590, Town End, Yewbarrow, Witherslack Hall, Whitbarrow Scar, Lord's Seat (Whitbarrow), Horse Pasture Wood, Pether Pots, Rawsons, Beck Head

10 mls 2,100 ft 5.25 hrs
Sunday, 2nd November

Dockray, Gowbarrow Fell, Swinburn's Park, Little Mell Fell, Lowthwaite, Great Mell Fell, Matterdale End, Ulcat Row

11.4 mls 3,020 ft 6.25 hrs
Tuesday, 28th October

Kirkstone Pass, St Raven's Edge, Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor), Hartsop Dodd, Stony Cove Pike, St Raven's Edge, Kirkstone Pass

7 mls 2,340 ft 5 hrs
Sunday, 26th October

Anglezarke car park, Lead Mines Clough, Higher Hempshaw's, Rivington Hall Barn, Great Barn, Yarrow Reservoir

7 mls 1,000 ft 4.5 hrs
Wednesday, 22nd October

Hartsop, Brock Crags, Satura Crag, Rest Dodd, Rampsgill Head, High Raise, Kidsty Pike, Rampsgill Head, The Knott, Hayeswater, Hayeswater Gill

8 mls 3,080 ft 6 hrs
Sunday, 19th October

Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, The Band, Bow Fell, Ore Gap, Angle Tarn, Rossett Pike, Mickleden

9 mls 3,000 ft 5 hrs
Wednesday, 15th October

Dockray, Gowbarrow Fell, Little Meldrum, The Hause, Little Mell Fell,  Swinburn's Park, Gowbarrow Fell, Dockray

9 mls 2,600 ft 5.5 hrs
Sunday, 12th October

Patterdale, Arnison Crag, Trough Head, Birks, St Sunday Crag, Deepdale Hause, Grisedale Tarn, Grisedale Valley

9.3 mls 3,100 ft 6 hrs
Thursday, 9th October

White Coppice, Great Hill, Spitlers Edge, Higher Hempshaw's, Lead Mines Clough, Yarrow Reservoir, Anglezarke Reservoir, Stronstrey Bank

8.6 mls 1,200 ft 4.25 hrs
Wednesday, 8th October

Warton, Warton Crag, Three Brothers, Leighton Hall, Leighton Moss, Red Bridge, Waterslack, Hawes Water, Yealand Storrs, Cringlebarrow Wood, Hyning Wood

10 mls 1,200 ft 5.5 hrs
Monday, 6th October

Whitewell and Browsholme (Walk 14 in Walks in the Forest of Bowland)

7.5 mls 900 ft 4.7 hrs
Sunday, 5th October

Mungrisdale, Bowscale Fell, Bannerdale Crags, Mungrisdale Common, Atkinson Pike, Blencathra, Scales Fell, Souther Fell

11 mls 3,330 ft 6.5 hrs
Sunday, 28th September

Grasmere (A591), Thorny How, Helm Crag, Gibson Knott, Calf Crag, Steel Fell

8.4 mls 2,400 ft 7 hrs
Thursday, 25th September

Rivington Great Barn, Terraced Gardens, Rivington Pike, Winter Hill , Belmont Road, Terraced Gardens

6.5 mls 1,000 ft 3 hrs
Wednesday, 24th September

Wrynose Pass, Cold Pike, Pike O'Blisco then Windermere to Orrest Head and return

6 mls 2,170 ft 4.5 hrs
Sunday, 21st September

Stanah, White Side, Raise, Stybarrow Dodd, Watson's Dodd, Great Dodd, Calfhow Pike, Clough Head, Old Coach Road, High Rigg shoulder

14 mls 4,000 ft 7 hrs
Friday, 19th September

Rivington Great Barn, Terraced Gardens, Rivington Pike, Noon Hill, Spitlers Edge, Great Hill, White Coppice, Anglezarke Reservoir, Rivington

12 mls 1,500 ft 5 hrs
Wednesday, 17th September

Horton-in-Ribblesdale, Ribble Way, Helwith Bridge, Pen-y-Ghent, Pennine Way,

8.5 mls 1,400 ft 5 hrs
Sunday, 14th September

Walna Scar Road, Low Water, Brim Fell, Grey Friar, Great Carrs, Swirl How, Wetherlam, Copper Mines Valley

10.6 mls 3,470 ft 7 hrs
Sunday, 7th September

Little Town, Hause Gate, Maiden Moor, High Spy, Dale Head Tarn, Dale Head, Robinson, High Snab Bank

9.6 mls 3,300 ft 6 hrs
Sunday, 31st August

Braithwaite, Barrow, Outerside, Sail, Crag Hill, Grasmoor, Hopegill Head, Grisedale Pike

10.7 mls 4,500 ft 6.5 hrs
Wednesday, 27th August

Grasmere (A591 lay-by), Mill Bridge, Tongue Gill, Brackenwife Knotts, Stone Arthur

3.75 mls 1,500 ft 3.5 hrs
Friday, 22nd August

Stockghyll Wood, Kirkstone Pass, Red Screes, Scandale Hause, Little Hart Crag, High Hartsop Dodd, Scandale Valley

12 mls 3,400 ft 8 hrs
Wednesday, 20th August

Glenridding, Howtown (via ferry), Hallin Fell, Sleet Fell, Place Fell, Patterdale

8.6 mls 2,700 ft 7.5 hrs
Sunday, 17th August

Kentmere, Hallow Bank Quarter, Nan Bield Pass, Harter Fell, Kentmere Pike, Shipman Knotts, Wray Crag, Rook Howe

10 mls 2,500 ft 6.5 hrs
Wednesday, 13th August

Whalley, Whalley Nab, Dean Clough Reservoir, Whalley viaduct

6 mls 750 ft 3.5 hrs
Friday, 8th August

Downham, Worsaw End, Scout Cairn, Pendle Summit, Downham Moor

7 mls 1,200 ft 4.75 hrs
Tuesday, 5th August

Hartsop, Gray Crag, Thornthwaite Crag, High Street, The Knott, Hayeswater

7.4 mls 2, 200 ft 6.5 hrs
Sunday, 3rd August

Seathwaite, Bessy Boot, Tarn at Leaves, Rosthwaite Cam, Coombe Head, Glaramara, Allen Crags, Sprinkling Tarn, Styhead Tar, Stockley Bridge

10.8 mls 3,400 ft 7 hrs
Sunday, 27th July

Elterwater, Spedding Crag, Silver HowBlea RiggPavey Ark, Thunacar Knott, Harrison Stickle, Pike O' Stickle, Loft Crag, Mark Gate, New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, Chapel Stile, Elterwater

12 mls 3,377 ft 8.5 hrs
Friday, 25th July

Hurst Green, River Ribble, confluence of River Calder and River Hodder, Hodder Place, Stonyhurst College

7.25 mls 600 ft 3.25 hrs
Tuesday, 22nd July

Spring Wood, Read Hall, Simon's Cross, Hodgeon Stone Plantation, Golf Course

6.5 mls 1,200 ft 4.5 hrs
Sunday, 20th July

Great Whernside - Dowber Gill Beck, Providence Pot, Hag Dyke, Great Whernside, Hunters Sleets, Starbotton, returning to Kettlewell via Dales Way

11.5 mls 2,220 ft 6.5 hrs
Sunday, 13th July

Fountain's Fell - Monk's Road, Malham Tarn, Pennine Way, Fountain's Fell, Darn Brook Fell, Littondale

15 mls 1,818 ft 7.75 hrs
Sunday, 29th June

Armboth Fell, High Tove, High Seat, Bleaberry Fell, Walla Crag, Raven Crag

12.1 mls 3,054 ft 7.5 hrs
Sunday, 22nd June

Extreme weather conditions meant that the planned walk to Great Gable was abandoned and a low level walk completed instead

6.6 mls 900 ft 3.5 hrs
Wednesday, 19th June

River Nevis footbridge, Lochan Meall an t-Stuidhe, Ben Nevis, Lochan Meall an t-Stuidhe, Fort William

11 mls 5,000 ft -
Tuesday, 17th June

Kinlochleven, Nevis Forest, Fort William

14.8 mls 2,111 ft 7 hrs
Monday 16th June

Kingshouse Hotel, Devil's Staircase, Kinlochleven

9 mls 1,427 ft 5 hrs
Sunday, 15th June

Tyndrum, Bridge of Orchy, Inveroran, Rannoch Moor, Kingshouse Hotel

19 mls 1,665 ft 8.5 hrs
Saturday, 14th June

Inverarnan, Glen Falloch, Auchertyre, Tyndrum

12.6 mls 1,953 ft 6 hrs
Friday, 13th June

Rowardennan Hotel, banks of Loch Lomond, Beinglas, Inverarnan

13 mls 1,224 ft 7 hrs
Thursday, 12th June

Drymen, Queen Elizabeth Forest Park, Conic Hill, Balmaha, Rowardennan Hotel

13.8 mls 2,058 ft 8.5 hrs
Wednesday 11th June

Milngavie, Mugdock Park, Dumgoyne, Drymen

12 mls 740 ft 6 hrs
Sunday, 1st June

Armboth, Armboth Fell, High Tove, High Seat, Bleaberry Fell, Walla Crag, Nest Brow, Dale Bottom, Thirlmere

11.7 mls 2,200 ft 7.5 hrs
Friday, 30th May

Stybarrow Crag, Rake Cottages, Glenridding Dodd, Sheffield Pike, Nick Head, Hart Side, Nick Head, Glencoyne Valley, Seldom Seen

7.5 mls 2,625 ft 6.5 hrs
Sunday, 25th May

Kentmere, Garburn Pass, Yoke, Ill Bell, Froswick, Thornthwaite Crag, Mardale Ill Bell, Nan Bield Pass, Harter Fell, Kentmere Pike, Shipman Knotts, Green Quarter

13.5 mls 3,400 ft 7 hrs
Sunday, 18th May

Hodge Close, Wetherlam Edge, Wetherlam, Swirl How, Great Carrs, Wet Side Edge, Little Langdale, Hodge Close

10 mls 3,400 ft 6 hrs
Saturday, 17th May

Moor Howe, Dubbs Road, Sour Howes, Moor Head, Sallows, Kentmere Park, Mickle Moss, High Borrans, Moor Howe

8 mls 1,400 ft 5 hrs
Sunday, 11th May

Kentmere, Garburn Pass, Yoke, Ill Bell, Froswick, Thornthwaite Crag, Mardale Ill Bell, Nan Bield Pass, Harter Fell, Kentmere Pike, Shipman Knotts, Green Quarter

13.5 mls 3,450 ft 9 hrs
Thursday, 6th May

Elterwater, Spedding Crag, Silver How, Little Castle How, Blea Rigg, Stickle Tarn, Pavey Ark, Thunacar Knott, Harrison Stickle, Loft Crag, Mark Gate, New Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, Chapel Stile, Elterwater

12 mls 3,800 ft 7.5 hrs
Sunday, 27th April

Hartsop. Hayeswater Gill, Gray Crag, Thornthwaite Crag, High Street, The Knott, Satura Crag, Angletarn, Angletarn Pikes, Boredale Hause, Hartsop

10 mls 3,200 ft 7 hrs
Thursday, 24th April

Hartsop. Hayeswater Gill, Gray Crag, Thornthwaite Crag, High Street, The Knott, Satura Crag, Angletarn, Angletarn Pikes, Boredale Hause, Hartsop

10 mls 3,200 ft 6 hrs
Sunday, 20th April

Lonscale Fell, Jenkin Hill, Skiddaw Little Man, Skiddaw, Bakestall, Whitewater Dash, Great Calva, Skiddaw House, Glenderaterra Valley

13 mls 3,800 ft 7.5 hrs
Wednesday, 16th April

Troutbeck Bridge, Robin Lane, Jenkin Crag, Ambleside, Stockghyll Force, Wansfell Pike, Wansfell, Nanny Lane, Troutbeck Bridge

7.5 mls 2,200 ft  
Friday, 11th April

Maggie's Bridge, Holme Wood, Burnbank Fell, Blake Fell, Gavel Fell, High Nook Farm, Maggie's Bridge

7.5 mls 1,720 ft 5 hrs
Thursday, 10th April

Newlands Hause, Knott Rigg, Ard Crags and return

3.6 mls 1,400 ft 2.4 hrs
Wednesday, 9th April

Cinderdale Bridge, Irton Fell, Whin Rigg, Illgill Head, Fence Wood & Wasdale Head

8 mls 2,200 ft 5.75 hrs
Tuesday, 8th April

Scarth Gap, Haystacks, Innominate Tarn, Warnscale Bottom, Buttermere, Grassgarth Coppice, Rannerdale Knotts & return

8.2 mls 2,835 ft 8 hrs
Monday, 7th April

Scaly Moss, Grike, Crag Fell, Whoap, Lank Rigg, River Calder

8.6 mls 2,225 ft 6 hrs
Sunday, 6th April

Foulsyke, Low Fell, Fellbarrow, Loweswater

6.5 mls 1,600 ft  
Sunday, 30th March

Askham, Heughscar Hill, The Cockpit, Arthur's Pike, Bonscale Pike, Loadpot Hill, Roman Road (course of)

12.5 mls 2,400 ft 6 hrs
Monday, 24th March

Scorton, Nicky Nook, Grizedale Bridge, Grizedale Lea Reservoir, Burns Farm, Slean End

6.5 miles 1,500 feet 4.5 hours
Sunday, 23rd March

Leighton Moss, Yealand Storrs, Limestone Link, Fairy Steps, Arnside, Arnside Knott and Arnside Tower

12.3 miles 1,500 feet 6 hours
Sunday, 10th February

Grasmere, Sour Milk Gill, Easedale Tarn, Codale Tarn, Tarn Crag, Stythwaite Steps, Far Easedale, Grasmere

8 miles 1,800 feet 7 hours
Sunday, 3rd February

Staveley, Barley Bridge, Brunt Knott, Ulgraves, Gurnal Dubs, Potter Tarn, Staveley Park

9 miles 2,500 feet 5 hours
Sunday, 20th January

Embsay,  Eastby, Upper Barden Reservoir, Burnsall & Thorpe Fell, Cracoe Obelisk, Rylstone Cross, Embsay Moor Reservoir

12 miles 2,600 feet 6.5 hours
Saturday, 19th January

Pelter bridge, Loughrigg Terrace, Loughrigg Fell, Fox Ghyll, Pelter Bridge

5 miles 1,120 feet 4 hours
Wednesday, 16th January

Staveley, Barley Bridge, Brunt Knott, Ulgraves, Gurnal Dubs, Potter Tarn, Staveley Park, Staveley

10 miles 2,200 feet 6 hours
Sunday, 13th January

Sabden, Deerstones, Spence Moor, Upper Ogden Reservoir, Ogden Clough, Big End, Pendle Hill, Scout Cairn, Sabden

11.5 miles 2,100 feet 6 hours
Sunday, 6th January

Bampton, Drybarrows, Fordingdale Bottom, Burnbanks, Rosgill Moor, Rosgill, Bampton

10 miles 1,750 feet 5.5 hours
Wednesday, 2nd January

White Moss car park, Loughrigg Fell, Loughrigg Tarn, Red Bank, weir, car park

5 miles 1,500 feet 3.5 hours

 

Statistics for this year (revised 27/12/08)
 

Number of walks 81
Distance walked 778.3 miles
Ascent climbed 177,772 feet
Wainwrights 159
Outlying Fells 7